Man Arrives At A Job Interview And Immediately Fails The Initial Trick Test

No mat­ter how many job inter­views you’ve had in life, it does­n’t make them any less nerve-wrack­ing. Every job search starts from a blank page the first impres­sion (and the ) can make it or break it. No won­der a whop­ping 93% of job seek­ers have expe­ri­enced great anx­i­ety to job inter­views, accord­ing to a recent JDP .

But accord­ing to one Red­dit user who post­ed on r/LifeProTips, no one should for­get that an “inter­view starts imme­di­ate­ly” once you set your foot in the door.

In a viral post that amassed 45.1k upvotes and 2.4k com­ments, the red­di­tor recount­ed how a can­di­date “blew his inter­view in the first 5 min­utes after he entered the .” And the sto­ry is absolute­ly illu­mi­nat­ing. Let’s read the full inci­dent down below, which should give you a lot to about before you take a shot at your next job inter­view.

A person shared an incident of a candidate blowing his job interview in the first 5 minutes after he entered the building
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Image cred­its: Petras Gag­i­las (not the actu­al pho­to)

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Image cred­its: sawta2112

And this is what had to say about the incident

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